Ricardo Araújo Pereira

Ricardo Artur de Araújo Pereira (born 28 April 1974) is a Portuguese comedian, political commentator and journalist. He first rose to national notoriety in the early 2000s as a member of the Portuguese comedy group Gato Fedorento. Born in Lisbon, he has a degree in Social Communication from the Universidade Católica Portuguesa and has also worked as a journalist for the Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias. He was a writer for Produções Fictícias, working on Herman 98, Herman 99 and Herman Difusão Portuguesa (“Herman Portuguese Broadcasting”) hosted by Herman José.

In 2003 he appeared in the series O Perfeito Anormal (“The Perfect Freak”) along with fellow Gato Fedorento member Zé Diogo Quintela, broadcast on SIC Radical. In the same year he started the Gato Fedorento project along with Zé Diogo Quintela, Miguel Góis and Tiago Dores, with a series of programs on SIC Radical. The group later moved in 2006 to RTP1, and in 2008 to SIC. He has the skill of impersonating sports and political personalities as well as Portuguese regional stereotypes, and has also been a columnist in the magazine Visão and A Bola.

Ricardo was voted 76th Greatest Portuguese of all time in a poll conducted by RTP for its show Grandes Portugueses (“Great Portuguese”). In 2019, he won a Golden Globe for Comedy at the 24th Portuguese Golden Globes Gala. He was awarded the Prémio Arco-íris (“Rainbow Prize”) by the ILGA Portugal Association for his contribution as a comedian in the fight against discrimination and homophobia, and in 2013 won the Grande Prémio da Crónica (“Grand Prize for the Chronicle”) with his book Novas Crónicas da Boca do Inferno (“New Chronicles from the Mouth of Hell”).